By Bob Caylor
The News-Sentinel
ALLEN COUNTY — A dog that was shot three times by an Allen County Community Corrections officer Saturday survived, but its owner wants an investigation into the circumstances around the shooting.
Antione Billingsley said the dog, “Baby,” is back home now in the 4400 block of Warsaw Street, recovering from what Billingsley said are three gunshot wounds.
“I could even say she’s back to normal, except for her shattered shoulder and the bullet sticking out of her leg. She’s trying to get up and play,” Billingsley said of the 35- to 40-pound pit bull.
But he said he didn’t know why a corrections officer was at his home at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
Community Corrections said it’s not too complicated. In a summary of the shooting it released Tuesday, officials said the animal lunged through a screen door and ran toward one of its officers, who was headed for an “adjacent” house, where he intended to check on a person who was on home detention. Billingsley said the house the officer was headed to was half a block away.
The dog, described by Community Corrections as a “3-year-old tan pit bull,” began “running aggressively toward the officer,” the Community Corrections account said.
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